B3250 crash in Plymouth on 20 September 2017 at 13:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the B3250 in Plymouth at 13:40 on Wednesday 20 September 2017. The 38-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39956, longitude -4.13532, in the PL3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ham, Plymouth, PL2 3SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500228481
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3250
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 22 December 2010
2 m awayRef 201050ED2G014
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 17 February 1981
2 m awayRef 198150E400216
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 22 August 2013
8 m awayRef 201350ED2G012
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 23 February 1995
10 m awayRef 199550E210469
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 9 March 2024
11 m awayRef 2024501426161
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 2 March 1984
12 m awayRef 198450E210447
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017500228481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Plymouth road accident statistics for 2017.